Zombies would wipe out humanity in just 100 days, study finds

A UK study has determined humanity would only survive for 100 days in the event of a zombie apocalypse, but we could fight back.

Physics students from the University of Leicester, in central England, hypothesised a zombie would likely find at least one person a day to turn, leaving a mere 300 people uninfected on Earth after only 100 days.

The students used a Susceptible Infected Recovered (SIR) model which is an epidemiological theory used to calculate the number of people infected with a contagious illness over a period of time to map their research.

During the hypothetical scenario the students divided the population into three categories, susceptible population (S), zombie (Z) and dead (D).

Zombies would take over the Earth in only 100 days according to a hypothetical study. ()

They found human growth dropped to a near standstill in their calculations while the zombie population thrived.

The study also predicted a dystopian future where humans could reclaim the planet if they embarked in an epic battle with the zombie horde and commenced mass breeding to bolster the dwindling population.

If humanity remained on the offensive, the university students hypothesise the zombie virus would eventually die off.